File talk:IAO-logo.png

Seal dropped[edit]

This logo was dropped after awhile ... fairly generally acknowledged as just too creepy. Masonic, Orwellian, you name it...Kwantus 17:57, 16 Sep 2003 (UTC)

Note: technically most government logos are NOT public domain, for the same reason that the Wikipedia logo is not in the public domain or GFDL (so that it isn't legal for other people to impersonate them or sell things with their logo on it). So I'm changing the license status. Not a big deal though. --Fastfission 02:08, 9 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I moved the above to this page, as it's just discussion about the copyright tag and non-NPOV. --Alanhwiki 03:19, 10 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't this be tagged public domain. while a lot of government logo's are not public domain, works of the US Federal Government are. Per my reading of WP:PD this should be public domain surely. I see other US federal government logos/seals tend to be tagged this as public domain YDAM TALK 22:29, 30 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Depends on who created it; see United States copyright law#Works by the federal government, which, quoting 17 U.S.C. § 105 says that "the United States Government is not precluded from receiving and holding copyrights transferred to it". Thus, if the logo was created by, say, a private graphic design firm under a contract for the government, then it may be copyrighted. Only if it was created by someone directly employed (not as a contractor) by the government will it be automatically in the public domain. I don't know how many graphic designers the U.S. government directly employs, or even if they have any, but I wouldn't be at all surprised if they turned to a private contractor for a job like this. —Ilmari Karonen (talk) 16:43, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, good point YDAM TALK 16:51, 1 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Dead link(s)[edit]

One of the External links is dead. --Ludvikus (talk) 14:38, 12 October 2009 (UTC) In particular, this: [1]. --Ludvikus (talk) 14:40, 12 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]